"[...] even though the communities themselves don’t see a dime when they’re sold". Good comment. The users build the communities – the platform owners cash in.

It's now back online, thanks god!

Normally the first thing after an m&a is zone the other network onto the parent company. I.e take ownership of digital assets. Very very rarely does this electronic changing goes smoothly. There is always the bounce and communties feel the truma un terms of downtime, network latency or outage.

down again